The opportunity
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation.
What you'll do
Set and continuously refine the go forward technical direction for CI, CD,: Plan, and source code experiences, aligned against the horizontal architectural initiatives.
Work directly with the VP of Engineering as her technical counterpart on: planning, technical investment, and where the group's engineering effort should go.
Translate GitLab's company-wide productivity, quality, and AI native: engineering goals into concrete technical direction for Core DevOps, and turn into iterable roadmaps, partnering broadly across the org.
Define what good means in measurable terms for these services, including: availability, latency at p95 and p99, pipeline success rate, test reliability, data correctness, and defect escape rate, then hold designs and implementations to it.
Maintain a clear and current picture of systemic technical risk across the: group, including single points of failure, unowned critical paths, brittle coupling between CI/CD and Plan, scaling limits, and past decisions that now constrain the roadmap. Drive a prioritized plan to retire it.
Lead the hardest design decisions hands on, writing code, prototypes, and: proofs of concept where a design argument needs evidence behind it.
What they're looking for
- Drive convergence on shared patterns, libraries, and paved paths, reducing: how many different ways the same problem gets solved across the group.
- Design migration paths that let large, long lived systems change underneath: users without breaking them, using incremental cutover, dual run, measurable rollback, and deprecation with clear timelines.
- Adopt the platform capabilities coming from GitLab's AI organization and the: company's productivity initiatives into Core DevOps, feed this group's requirements back into them, and help prove what works on systems of this scale and maturity.
- Serve as the escalation point for complex or contested technical decisions: across the group, including those where no single team owns the outcome.
